| Author | Message | ||
     Pwnzor |
A fully charged battery will take you about 60 miles once your stator has completely failed. These are freeway miles, do your best to avoid red lights once you get off the freeway... Expect your check engine light to come on when the battery gets down to about 6 volts, but the bike will still run, headlight getting really dim at this point, but you can coast right up into your driveway just as fine as you please. I rolled the dice and won last night. Today, I replace the stator. The diesel mechanic at the yard where I park my truck was nice enough to lend me his 250 ft-lb torque wrench and Al is delivering a stator, gasket and other essentials to me early this afternoon. Over 40k miles on the original stator, not too bad really. Everybody should have a volt meter on their bike, that's my advice for the day. | ||
| Buellerandy |
lol, thats an awesome bit of info to have! Thanks for sharing and enjoy your next 40,000 miles. | ||
| Just_ziptab |
Just think how much farther you could have gone if you had a toggle switch to turn off the head lights........... | ||
| Ftd |
Pull the fuse for the headlights. Helps a lot. My Uly stator went out with ~3500 miles on bike. | ||
| Djkaplan |
You can go a lot further on carbed bike. The stator on my M2 must have failed at MBIII but I didn't know it until the next week when I tried to start my bike and the battery was nearly dead (in my garage!). I could still push start it even with a nearly dead battery. It had just enough juice to run the lights and ignition but if I blew the horn, the bike would die. | ||
| Dfishman |
Take out the fan fuse.Should add a few more miles. |
